跨国精英移民的日常生活实践与根植性家的营造

流动性背景下,跨国精英移民如何在迁入地实践、重构和感知家,以实现长久居留既是现实问题也是学术问题。本文援引“根植性家（rooted home）”的地理学概念,采用半结构化深度访谈和观察法等质性研究方法,以根植性类型的跨国精英移民为研究对象,探究其日常生活实践与家的营造。研究发现：①跨国精英移民对家的根植性理解并非意味着他们“不流动”,而是在流动中与“过去的家”保持联系与平衡。②跨国精英移民对家的根植性实践表现在使用怀旧性的日常生活实践策略,涵盖物质性、情感性和外部性维度,其中物质性维度较易实现,而情感性和外部性维度即使是精英移民也难以实现。③流动性加深了对根植性类型跨国精英移民对“过去的家”的认同,并影响其对现在和未来的家的感知和去向的思考。研究借助日常生活视角补充和完善了“根植性家”的理论与实证,也为跨国精英移民的深度研究提供了可供参考的范本。

THE EVERYDAY LIFE PRACTICE AND HOME-MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL ELITE MIGRANT

In the context of mobility, how transnational elite migrant practice, reconstruct and perceive the home in receiving country to realize the permanent residence is both a practical and an academic issue. By using qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured in-depth interviews, observation and object tracking, this paper quotes "rooted home" as the geographical concept to explore the cross-border everyday life practise and home construction of transnational elite migrant of rooted type, especially paying attention to the object representing "from developed countries to developing countries", which is a new migration paradigm. It is found that the rooted elite migrants having rooted understanding about home doesn't mean they don't "move", but refers to keeping balance and in touch with their past rooted home. Besides, in the process of home-making in received place, the rooted elite migrants usually use nostalgic everyday life strategies, including dimensions of materiality, emotion and externality. It's easy for elite migrants to realize the material dimension but not the emotional and external dimensions. Moreover, the mobility not only deepens the rooted elite migrants' identification of their past rooted home, but also affects the perception and conception about their present home, meanwhile affecting the orientation and thinking about their future ideal home.